Grails is not packaged officially for Ubuntu yet. And the packages that can be downloaded from grails.org don’t have bash completion. This guy however packaged grails for Debian/Ubuntu, and it include a bash completion script. The package seems to work great, and for one of my machines where I already installed grails from the usual tar.gz download, I pulled out the bash completion from the deb-package. To make it work completely with the tar.gz dowload I just had to modify the location of the grails installation (to use $GRAILS_HOME). Ahhhh.

Somewhat less useful (but fun), I also added the Ubuntu “notify-send” notification feature described here. I feel all set for Grails development.